Ask any medical doctor, and they’ll tell you that prevention is better than cure. It’s more cost-effective and it has better outcomes. The same is true in cybersecurity. But we believe that our industry has veered too far away from this simple concept. We observe that most new tools are detection-focused, and we are calling…
AWS added AI workload protection and Microsoft Azure security monitoring to Security Hub, its centralized security platform for collecting and prioritizing security findings across cloud environments. Support for additional cloud platforms will follow. “Collecting findings was never the hard part. The hard part is understanding them, connecting them, and acting before an attacker does, and…
FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol, released under the Apache license, and it runs on a large share of workstations and servers through the many tools built on it. The 3.29.0 version is a security, bugfix, and maintenance update that resolves 22 advisories. What the fixes address The commits read as…
CrashStealer is a new macOS infostealer that masquerades as Apple’s CrashReporter component, uses an Apple‑notarized installer to slip past Gatekeeper, tricks users into handing over their password, and then systematically loots browsers, password managers, crypto wallets, and Keychain secrets before exfiltrating them in AES‑encrypted bundles. Researchers have been following the development of CrashStealer since May…
Microsoft is blocking this month’s Windows 11 security updates on some Dell devices because they are causing shutdowns and performance issues. […]
SonicWall warns of active attacks exploiting two SMA 1000 zero-days, including a flaw enabling arbitrary command execution. SonicWall confirmed the active exploitation of two zero-day vulnerabilities affecting Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 appliances. The vulnerabilities were internally discovered and reported by Adam Babis of the company’s PSIRT. The company investigated multiple incidents indicating these vulnerabilities…
The West African country advanced rules to force organizations to disclose cyberattacks, joining other nations in a shift to mandated transparency.
Fortinet has announced new capabilities for its unified endpoint platform, FortiEndpoint, designed to help organizations securely adopt AI, protect sensitive data, and reduce risk. By bringing AI visibility and control, native data security, endpoint risk scoring, and FortiAI-assisted operations into FortiEndpoint, Fortinet enables security teams to better govern AI usage, reduce sensitive data exposure, enforce…
U.S. federal prosecutors have unsealed charges against three Russian nationals, accusing them of providing bulletproof hosting (BPH) services to ransomware gangs that caused over $62 million in damages to victims worldwide. […]
WhatCable is a free Mac app that gives you all the information you could need for your USB-C cables.
Trust Chain is an AI-native third-party risk management (TPRM) solution by Strike Graph that replaces the security questionnaire model with validated evidence of compliance. Rather than asking vendors to self-report their security posture, Trust Chain requires vendors to submit evidence, which is then evaluated using Strike Graph’s patent-pending Verify AI technology. The evaluation tests each…
Qualtrics, an experience management company, has named five new senior leaders to its team across sales, marketing, and product. Among the new appointments are: Adam Block as Chief Sales Officer (CSO) Ken Coleman as Senior Vice President, Marketing Ken Hoang as Senior Vice President, Product Khoi Hoang as the leader for Qualtrics’ Global Sales Engineering…
Security engineers play a pivotal role in enterprise cybersecurity, because they are the professionals who design, build, and deploy security systems to protect an organization’s data, applications, systems, networks, and other IT components against a variety of cyber threats. Finding not just qualified security engineers, but the best and brightest available, needs to be a…
SingGuard-NSFA is an open-source guardrail framework aimed at operational threats in agent workflows. Four models ship at 0.8B, 2B, 4B, and 9B parameters, all built on Qwen3.5 base backbones. Risk taxonomy The NSFA risk taxonomy organizes threats along the CIA triad of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. It defines 185 risk variants grouped under a smaller…
SonicWall has warned of active exploitation of two zero-day vulnerabilities impacting Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 series appliances, one of which could be exploited to achieve arbitrary command execution. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2026-15409 (CVSS score: 10.0) – A Server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability that a remote unauthenticated attacker could exploit to
For most of the past decade, the managed detection and response (MDR) decision was a simple one: teams that couldn’t staff a 24/7 SOC outsourced detection and response to a provider who could. It solved a resources problem, and the alternatives (hiring a team you couldn’t afford or keeping a functional set of SOAR playbooks…
By: Marie Mamaril, Intelligence Team Finance-themed phishing campaigns are evolving toward process-oriented messaging tactics, in which email subject lines are utilizing more process-driven language rather than pressure-driven. Threat actors are shifting away from messaging that uses overt emotional urgency and toward ordinary business language that mirrors daily financial workflows. We are seeing these campaigns more frequently,…
Robots that read the world through cameras now lean on large vision-language models to interpret what they see and decide what to do next. These models handle images and text together, so any words that fall inside the camera frame become part of the input. A stop sign, a street name, a sticker on a…
TEL AVIV, Israel, July 14, 2026, CyberNewswire – Tego AI, a cybersecurity company, published new research identifying a potentially critical security weakness in Claude Tag, Anthropic’s native integration between Claude and Slack. Researchers observed Claude Tag responding to messages containing the literal text “@Claude” without requiring a genuine structural Slack mention. As a result, content…
Over the past twelve months, researchers documented intrusions in which AI ran exploitation workflows autonomously, generating thousands of commands across dozens of sessions with minimal human direction, according to Check Point’s AI Security Report 2026. AI-powered cyber attacks The attackers posing the greatest risk are those orchestrating AI across multiple stages of the attack chain…
AI Appreciation Day falls on 16 July, and my inbox says the mood has shifted. The day itself has been running since 2021, a fixed date each year to weigh up what the technology…
AI developer needs more funds for costly research in race with Anthropic and other U.S. companies.
New Annual AI Security Report 2026 documents live intrusions run by AI, a vulnerability window compressed from days to hours, and high-risk enterprise AI interactions doubling…
Passkeys have been around for some time, but enterprise-wide adoption to this point has been slow for a number of reasons. But soon, many Microsoft customers won’t have a choice. Starting September 1, Microsoft will roll out passkeys as the default authentication method in its cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) service Entra ID. And…
Apache Ossie is currently undergoing incubation at The Apache Software Foundation ASF.
Passkeys have been around for some time, but enterprise-wide adoption to this point has been slow for a number of reasons. But soon, many Microsoft customers won’t have a choice. Starting September 1, Microsoft will roll out passkeys as the default authentication method in its cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) service Entra ID. And…
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Earlier this month Microsoft warned that, because the latest AI models can now help discover vulnerabilities, CSOs will see a higher volume of security updates every month. It wasn’t kidding. Today the company issued a record number of patches, with 59 rated as critical. And Microsoft is now recommending that customers accelerate their patching schedules…
Accelerating time-to-value through AWS Marketplace to protect organisations from sophisticated social engineering, deepfakes, and shadow AI
New Research Highlights Growing Visibility Gap Between Employee Behaviour and Organisational Security Controls
The last update to the DShield SIEM [4] was in Sep 2025 which contained some minor tweaks. This update currently is using ELK stack version 8.19.15, contains some additional dashboards and new logs. The following have been added to the DShield SIEM to provide additional information about what the DShield sensor [1] is receiving. These…
Samsung has told us how it plans to stiffen the next Galaxy fold without making it fatter: put titanium inside the screen. Two separate pieces of it.
InterSystems, a creative data technology provider powering more than one billion health records globally, today announced it has been recognised as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner…
Combining Cloudera’s next-generation lakehouse data services with VAST’s AI Operating System, leveraging the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design, this joint solution…
Microsoft is publishing 622 vulnerabilities on July 2026 Patch Tuesday, including a record-breaking 416 Windows vulnerabilities.
New ESG assessment initiative delivers greater visibility of sustainable suppliers across local government procurement
Read all about the latest AWS security features, compliance updates, and hands-on resources in our new, monthly digest posts. You’ll find expert blog posts, new service capabilities, code samples, and workshops. AWS Security Blog posts This month’s AWS Security Blog posts covered identity and access management, threat intelligence, network security, AI-powered security tooling, and multi-account…
“Build a smart home”, they said. “It’ll make life so much better”, they said. Well, life wasn’t very bloody good at 23:00 the other night after travelling 33 hours from Paris only to find the IoT doorlock batteries dead and the 9V “jump start” procedure completely failing! Eventually, the locksmith arrived and opened an old-school…
AI Appreciation Day is dedicated to recognizing the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on society, industry, and daily life.
AI Appreciation Day is a chance to reflect, not just on how far AI has come, but also on what is still preventing many organisations from realising its full potential.
Insights from 2,158 IT and cybersecurity leaders across 17 countries whose organizations were hit by ransomware in the past year.
Introducing Sophos Fusion, the industry’s most complete AI-Native Cybersecurity Defense System.
A lawsuit alleged the company relied on AI that disproportionately targeted workers with disabilities or who were on medical or parental leave.
In this post, I will show you the best cybersecurity PR agencies for Infosec vendors. When a new regulation lands, most cybersecurity vendors treat it as a legal problem. They update a compliance page, brief the sales team, and move on. The vendors that win treat it as a communications opportunity. NIS2, DORA, the SEC…
Australian environmental technology company SiteHive has expanded its IoT environmental intelligence platform with the launch of SiteHive Weather. This new solution integrates…
Insicon Cyber deploys F5 AI Guardrails and F5 AI Red Team to gain continuous runtime security and adversarial testing capability as Australians’ trust in AI reaches historic low
In this post, I will show you which AI image generator fits your marketing team’s needs in 2026. Marketing teams rarely struggle to generate an image. They struggle to generate the right image: one that is on-brand, approved for commercial use, private enough for client work, and easy to label when disclosure is required. As…
Fastly Brings Leading Cloud Edge Expertise to Help DIMPACT Members Understand and Optimise Digital Carbon Footprints
These vulnerable UEFI applications, primarily older versions of the shim bootloader, can allow attackers to execute untrusted code during system startup, according to ESET researcher Martin Smolár.
The ransomware group D1R claimed to have accessed a database of 40,000 entries from Synopsys and subsequently used this information to target Bosch, alleging the theft of valuable intellectual property.
The hearing, the first of its kind in Brussels regarding advanced AI risks, focused on Anthropic’s cyber-capable models, Mythos and Fable, which are capable of identifying and exploiting software vulnerabilities.
A Welshman has been sentenced to prison for his involvement in numerous swatting incidents across the UK, US, and Canada. Callum Dare, 26, was an administrator for Doxbin, a dark web platform used for doxxing and facilitating harassment, according to a recent report by The Register.
The ShinyHunters group targeted Salesforce users by tricking them into authorizing a malicious Salesforce Data Loader application, which then requested OAuth permissions.
The vulnerability centers on how Cursor resolves Git binaries. An attacker can place a malicious file named “git.exe” at the root of a Git repository.
K8s-aibom functions as a controller that surfaces a bill of materials (BOM) for AI operations, exposing them across a user’s cloud estate.
Fortinet Inc. has expanded its FortiEndpoint platform with new features designed to help companies monitor employee use of artificial intelligence tools and prevent sensitive data from leaking into them.
Gartner predicts Agentic AI is set to disrupt enterprise software revenue models, with up to $234 billion of enterprise application spending exposed to agentic arbitrage…
While these days I don’t really have any time to talk to people in the early days of their startup journey, I did a lot of that. Over the past few years, I have met hundreds (definitely over a hundred) of early-stage and aspiring cybersecurity startup founders. Some were brainstorming what to build and going…
LabubaRAT operates by impersonating NVIDIA’s container runtime toolkit, using an executable named “nvidia-sysruntime.exe.”
As we did during Covid, the government is helping U.S. companies to meet national-security needs.
Three of the 622 CVEs for which Microsoft issued patches this week are zero-days; there are more than 60 critical vulnerabilities.
The Trump administration unveiled its new federal clearinghouse for sharing AI cyber threat information between the government and private sector, and said the project is already receiving threat intelligence on cybersecurity vulnerabilities and prioritizing patching. Created last month through a White House executive order, “Gold Eagle” will be managed by the Department of the Treasury,…
Patch Tuesday: Microsoft fixes a record 621 CVEs, including 2 exploited zero-days and critical flaws affecting SharePoint, RDP, Hyper-V, and AD FS. Microsoft’s July 2026 Patch Tuesday is, by a significant margin, the largest single-month security release in the company’s history. The Zero Day Initiative counted 621 new Microsoft CVEs for the month, and the…
SonicWall warns that threat actors have been exploiting two SMA1000 vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2026-15409 and CVE-2026-15410, in zero-day attacks and urges customers to install the newly released security updates. […]
The cyberattack, which occurred on July 13, 2026, targeted the systems of an unnamed logistics company responsible for delivering ingredients to KFC’s numerous Japanese locations.
Shares of the corporate stalwart plunged 25% as AI purchases crowd out traditional tech spending in many companies’ budgets.
The Central Regional Security Operations Center, operating from Glendale Community College and Paradise Valley Community College, functions as a student-run cyber defense hub.
Structural problems prevent teams from reconstructing control-plane activity even when cloud logging is active
The acquisition aims to bolster Cribl’s platform with advanced detection engineering capabilities, enabling enterprise customers to identify and respond to sophisticated cybersecurity threats more effectively.
Embed governance into the data movement process rather than applying governance after data has moved
Microsoft has released its monthly security update for July 2026, which includes 622 vulnerabilities affecting a range of products, including 57 that Microsoft marked as “critical”. Microsoft notes that two of the vulnerabilities disclosed this month have been exploited in the wild. CVE-2026-56155 is an important-severity elevation of privilege vulnerability in Active Directory Federation Services…
Microsoft shipped its largest Patch Tuesday on record today, and two of the fixes close holes that attackers are already exploiting. The release covers 622 of Microsoft’s own CVEs by its Security Update Guide count, more than triple June’s previous high of around 200. Those two live bugs are the ones to grab first. Microsoft credits incident responders…
The framework catalogs adversary behavior in standardized language that lets defenders communicate precisely about threats
The Spanish Police dismantled a cybercrime and money-laundering organization that made €140 million ($160 million) from investment fraud and business email compromise (BEC) attacks. […]
Siri AI is the star of iOS 27, and now most iPhone users can try it with the first public beta of the OS.
Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday security program reached an unrivaled pinnacle this month, as the vendor addressed 622 vulnerabilities across its suite of business products and systems. “The bug apocalypse has finally descended upon us,” Dustin Childs, head of threat awareness at Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative, wrote in a blog post Tuesday. “The mother of all…
Automated Frequency Coordination systems by default trust client-side data, which could lead to location spoofing and other attacks that disrupt traffic.
U.S. sanctions hit VPN provider 1VPNS and a cryptor seller for enabling ransomware gangs behind billions in losses to critical infrastructure. The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned two individuals and one entity on July 13 for supplying tools and infrastructure to ransomware groups that have caused billions of dollars in losses to…
The brand’s latest ring comes with extensive features, but it’s both larger and more expensive than the previous version.
Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the number of vulnerabilities the software giant fixed in its record-smashing Patch Tuesday release last month. Microsoft attributed the burgeoning patch counts to vulnerability discoveries aided by artificial intelligence. Nearly 60 of…
Security Hub is our foundation for full-stack enterprise security across clouds. It centralizes your security operations and turns raw signals into prioritized insights, so your team spends its time managing real risk instead of stitching tools together. Today that foundation grows in two directions our customers asked for most. We are adding purpose-built protection for…
A threat actor has published hundreds of fake GitHub repositories impersonating legitimate software and security projects to distribute infostealer malware. […]
This patch Tuesday includes a staggering 622 vulnerabilities, not including another 427 vulnerabilities in Chromium, affecting Microsoft’s Edge browser. 62 of the vulnerabilities are rated critical. One was disclosed before today, and two have already been exploited. Given the large number of vulnerabilities, it is difficult to point out “noteworthy” issues. Already exploited vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-56155 : Active Directory…
Microsoft has released the Windows 10 KB5099539 extended security update, which includes the July 2026 Patch Tuesday security updates for 570 vulnerabilities, along with additional security fixes. […]
I have multiple Apple Watch straps, but I keep coming back to the Nomad Stratos Band for its classy looks and sporty comfort.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe products, the most severe of which could allow for arbitrary code execution. Adobe After Effects is a digital visual effects and motion graphics application used for creating cinematic movie titles, transitions, and complex animation sequences. Adobe Animate is a professional vector animation software used to design interactive animations…
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Microsoft products, the most severe of which could allow for remote code execution. Successful exploitation of the most severe of these vulnerabilities could result in an attacker gaining the same privileges as the logged-on user. Depending on the privileges associated with the user, an attacker could then install programs;…
56Critical 510Important 3Moderate 0Low Microsoft addresses 569 CVEs in the largest Patch Tuesday release yet. This month’s release includes three zero-days, two of which were exploited in the wild. Microsoft patched 569 CVEs in its July 2026 Patch Tuesday release, with 56 rated critical, 510 rated as important, and 3 rated as moderate. This marks…
SAP has rolled out updates to address multiple vulnerabilities as part of its July 2026 security updates, including a critical flaw in SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-44747 (CVSS score: 9.9), an out-of-bounds write flaw that allows an authenticated attacker to leverage logical errors in memory management to cause a…
Today is Microsoft’s July 2026 Patch Tuesday, and with it comes security updates for a record-breaking 570 flaws, including two zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in attacks and one publicly disclosed. […]
Apple just released the iPadOS 27 public beta, offering early access to an upgraded Siri, new Safari features, and more.
Here’s a breakdown of which iPhone models support the next iOS update (now available on public beta) – and which ones Apple is leaving behind.
Risk tolerance, exposure visibility, board oversight — handling third-party risk is complicated but achievable with disciplined, precise governance.
